Our third @UNLV #Philosophy #Colloquium Series talk of the term is Friday 2/27 3pm in CHB C122. Dr. Jasmin Özel of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities will discuss “Natural Psychological Kinds - An Integrative Proposal”. www.unlv.edu/event/natura...

Our second @UNLV.edu #Philosophy #Colloquium Series talk of the semester is Friday 2/13 at 3pm in CHB C122. Prof. Ravi Thakral of @unevadareno.bsky.social will discuss “Socially Centered Discourse”. www.unlv.edu/event/social...

Our first @UNLV.edu #Philosophy #Colloquium Series talk of the semester is Friday 1/30 at 3pm in CHB C122. Prof. Alastair Norcross of U Colorado, Boulder will discuss “Abortion and Utility”. www.unlv.edu/event/aborti...

Jan 19-20, Brad Armour-Garb and James @jawoodbridge.bsky.social will lead an online master class on their 2025 @oxunipress.bsky.social book, *The #Deflationary Approach to #Truth: A Guide*. The two-day event is organized by VICTR (the Virtual International Consortium for Truth Research).

Jan. 19 and 20: Bradley Armour-Garb of #UAlbany #Philosophy and @JAWoodbridge.bsky.social of @unlv.edu #Philosophy are doing a two-day #online authors-meet-critics session through #VICTR for their recent @oxunipress.bsky.social book, The Deflationary Approach to Truth - A Guide.

Faculty Publication! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

SPRING 2026 COURSE! PHIL 473: Topics in the History of Philosophy—History of Early Analytic Philosophy Prof. Greg Janssen *This course may satisfy either a history of philosophy or a contemporary philosophical theory requirement.

SPRING 2026 COURSE! PHIL 410.1001: Plato—a close reading of The Sophist! (TTh 8:30am-9:45am) Prof. Paul Schollmeier

@unlv.edu #PhilosophyClub this Thursday (12/4)!

Faculty publication!

#WORLDPHILOSOPHYDAY is Thursday 11/20! Rejoice with your favorite thinkers! Learn more about this @unesco.org celebration at www.unesco.org/en/days/phil.... 🤔🤷‍♂️🤔🧐🤦‍♂️🤔😮😱🤔🤓🤷‍♂️🤔…

Our seventh @UNLV.edu #Philosophy #Colloquium talk is Friday 11/21 at 3pm in BEH 107. Prof. Brad Armour-Garb from the University at Albany—SUNY will argue “In Defense of the Actuality of Legal Gluts”. www.unlv.edu/event/defens...

Our fifth @UNLV.edu #Philosophy #Colloquium Series talk of the semester is Friday 11/7 at 3pm in BEH 107. #UNLV Philosophy’s own Jesse Fitts and @jawoodbridge.bsky.social will discuss “A Grim Situation for New Theories of Propositions”. www.unlv.edu/event/grim-s...

Join some #faculty and an #alumna of @unlv.edu #Philosophy at this educational panel discussion, co-hosted by @fsap-unlv.bsky.social and #SJP-UNLV, on Thur 10/30, 1pm-3pm, in #StudentUnion Ballroom A. #FreeFood from #TheHalalShack! Open to students, faculty, and staff. *Active RebelCard required*

Our fourth @UNLV #Philosophy #Colloquium talk of the semester is Friday 10/24 at 3pm in BEH 107. Prof. Roy Cook from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities will discuss “Inconsistency, Intuitionism, and Excluded Middles”. www.unlv.edu/event/incons...

Our first #Philosophy #Colloquium Series talk of the semester is on WEDNESDAY 9/10 at 3pm in BEH 103. Avram Hiller from Portland State University will discuss “Hot Hands and Other Statistically-Hidden Causal Factors”. www.unlv.edu/event/hot-ha...

Really cool paper About real life trolley cases. (I’ll note that the paper is a bit confused about what experimental philosophers are interested with moral dilemmas: it is not about predicting behavior but about understanding how people *think* about permissibility.) osf.io/preprints/ps...

Faculty News: Prof. @jawoodbridge.bsky.social’s new book with @armrgrb.bsky.social, The Deflationary Approach to Truth: A Guide, has just been published digitally by Oxford University Press. The print version will be available on September 3rd. 😁 academic.oup.com/book/60664

ICYMI Yesterday's broadcast with cognitive philosopher Andy Clark, author of "The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality," is now available for download: podcasts.apple.com/id/podcast/t.... #PhilSky #philosophy #neuroscience

You are warmly invited to join us for @UNLV.edu #Faculty #Cares Outdoor Teach-In: Standing with Our #Undocumented and #International Students—Wednesday, May 7th from noon-1pm on the green space by the Rose Garden on campus (across from Ham Hall).

Niccolò #Machiavelli was born on this date in 1469. For our episode in 2014, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter, Natalie Jones, to explore the connections between the 15th-century philosopher and a 20th-century rapper: youtu.be/R2LtW3l1J0I?... #PhilSky #philosophy #Tupac #2Pac #Makaveli

You are warmly invited to join us for @UNLV.edu #Faculty #Cares Outdoor Teach-In: Standing with Our #Undocumented and #International Students—Wednesday, May 7th from noon-1pm on the green space by the Rose Garden on campus (across from Ham Hall).

Ahead of this Sunday's broadcast with Barry Lam, author of "Fewer Rules, Better People: The Case For Discretion," we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter to talk to the people whose lives are perhaps the most governed by rules: youtu.be/uSQog87ldr4 #PhilSky #philosophy @hiphination.bsky.social

In case you are a huge nerd, I made some lecture notes on Rosa Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution for a reading group I am doing with my students. They are very nerdy and opinionated but I dunno maybe some of yinz will care. www.liamkofibright.com/uploads/4/8/...

Register below for the first in a series of panel discussions co-sponsored by Scholars for a New Deal in Higher Ed, the Critical Legal Collective, & the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom. Monday, April 28! @sfndhe.bsky.social us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare 🎉🎂🥳🎈

The truth about love In Plato’s Symposium, Socrates shared a theory of love from the teachings of a ‘non-Athenian woman’. Who was she really? By @armanddangour.bsky.social #philsky aeon.co/essays/meet-...

Our seventh and final #Philosophy #Colloquium of the term is Fri 4/25 at 3pm in CHB C213. Prof. @amyrs.bsky.social will facilitate a discussion with @UNLV.edu students about their research regarding “Crossing Borders through Philosophy for Children”. www.unlv.edu/event/crossi...

At this point I think it's fair to say that "woke" is best understood as a thin proscribing term, it simply means "bad" or "not good". For historical reasons it has connotations of leftwingery or some such, but its actual denotation is merely The Bad, if you judge the semantics by its actual use.

Be skeptical of much of cutting edge science. Science often settles very slowly and a large part of what is published won’t stand the test of time (as measured in weeks or months). On this theme see my book Trust Issues. Hopefully out next year.

Our next episode is a special #EarthWeek rebroadcast from a few years ago. We sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter, Holly J. McDede, to talk to former #climate skeptics who are convincing current skeptics to join the fight against global warming: youtu.be/HYltT0CQK-o #PhilSky #philosophy #beliefs

Every #university everywhere should fight this. #ResistFascism

Acts of professional kindness (and a poem about John Rawls)

NEW: The University of Southern California is attempting to block faculty from forming a union and it is doing it by using an argument pushed by SpaceX and Amazon: that the National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional. capitalandmain.com/usc-follows-...

No #university should #collaborate with any #fascist #SecretPolice. 🤬

Full on #ThoughtPolice bullshit. 🤬

In the latest episode of “Lives Well Lived”, Kasia and I speak with neuroscientist Antonio Damasio. Among many topics related to living well, we explore the roots of consciousness - not in the cerebral cortex, but in the brainstem. (1/2)

Ahead of this Sunday's broadcast of our #WiseWomen episode on the #philosophy of @irismurdoch.bsky.social, Ian Shoales the Sixty-Second Philosopher offers his take on her complex and often compartmentalized life: soundcloud.com/philosophyta... #PhilSky

I'll be speaking in Melbourne on Saturday 17 May at an event titled “The Weight of Ideas”, part of the Effective Altruism Australia Connect conference. I'll reflect on how philosophy can make a real difference in the world, followed by a Q&A and a chance to have your book signed. Tickets & info:

Last week we were informed that our #NEH grant for the #WiseWomen series was being terminated. We were close to finishing season 2 and had recently applied to produce two new seasons. But with that funding now off the table, we find ourselves in a precarious position. Our future is on the line. 1/3

The damage they have done to higher education in the USA is so huge and so disheartening

Every so often I recall my professor who believed that by doing a big spasming gesture in front of the class he had demonstrated his own free will.

The April 17 #DayofActionforHigherEd is one week away! Join @actioninhighered.bsky.social tomorrow, April 11, at 3 p.m. ET / 12 p.m. PT for their planning call to hear from some leading campus organizers about their plans for the Day of Action.  Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Grinding American higher education to dust under the political jackboot

Sound #philosophical viewpoint.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Using the word "philistine" to mean "uncultured person" is pretty racist when you think about it. Philistine was a whole country with, I'm sure, a variety of people. Imagine if in 1000 years "American" was a word meaning "idiot". Well ok...that would make sense. Bad example, but you get the idea.

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